Text 2988, 68 rader
Skriven 2007-06-21 12:15:54 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
   Kommentar till text 2971 av Björn Forsström (3:640/305)
Ärende: Nipple slip
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21 Jun 07 23:30, Björn Felten wrote to Björn Forsström:

Don't believe a word of bullshit this person spreads. I'm not a christian
and I abhore everything that Felten stands for...


 BF>> This is why I don't think you deserve the honor to be here in
 BF>> Fidonet. Go back to sleep and let the adults talk.

 BF>    I disagree, Björn. I think it's good for fidonet that Christian
 BF> fanatics like him are given the opportunity to display their narrow
 BF> minded opinions even in our network.

 BF>    Remember that every single US politician -- from the president
 BF> down to the most obscure congressman and down to even the local
 BF> sheriff -- is Christian in the US. Should anyone of them openly
 BF> proclaim that they are not, they'll be off after the next election.

 BF>    It's not a coincident that I, just a couple of weeks ago, posted
 BF> the famous words of Noam Chomsky in the Food for Thoughts section of
 BF> the
 BF> Snooze:

 BF>  "Goebbels was in favour of free speech for views he liked. So
 BF>   was Stalin. If you're in favour of free speech, then you're
 BF>   in favour of freedom of speech precisely for views you
 BF>   despise. Otherwise, you're not in favour of free speech."

 BF>    That religious fanatics all over the world are trying as hard as
 BF> they can to forbid people with opposing views to express those views
 BF> is not surprising. Many of them live in dictatorships, so they have
 BF> never tasted Free Speech, so they may be excused.

 BF>    But most Christian fanatics live under the comforting blanket of a
 BF> democracy with it's outspoken Freedom of Speech. Those fanatics are
 BF> amongst the most despicable people on this globe IMHO. For they use
 BF> their FoS to utter their perverted PoVs but are desperately trying to
 BF> prevent everyone else from exercising that very same right.

 BF>    The biggest irony of it all is, that their Founding Fathers were
 BF> very well aware of the fact that here in Europe, almost every war was
 BF> a religious one. So, in the very first sentence -- Amendment I -- of
 BF> their Bill of Rights, they wrote:

 BF>   "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
 BF>    religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
 BF>    abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the
 BF>    right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
 BF>    the government for a redress of grievances."

 BF>    This is so beautifully put, that one might wish that all other
 BF> countries would adopt it. And many have -- even if it wasn't more
 BF> than about ten years ago we in Sweden no longer had every new-born
 BF> child forcibly joined to the Swedish (Christian) Church. But in the
 BF> US they have gone in the opposite direction, happily ignoring the
 BF> basic thoughts that's behind the elegant wording above...  :(

 BF> ---
 BF>  * Origin: Jabberwocky (3:640/305)

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